That's
called the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep.
Well we know that dream sleep, which principally comes from a stage that
we call rapid eye movement sleep or REM sleep, dream sleep actually provides at least two benefits for the brain.
Not exact matches
And REM sleep (so -
called because of the
rapid eye movements of this stage) is associated with dreaming.
A small baby spends a lot of sleeping time in a stage of sleep
called REM (
rapid eye movement).
The largest effect was on the number of times the mice went in and out of a sleep phase
called paradoxical sleep, which resembles REM (
rapid eye movement) sleep in humans, when dreams occur and memories are strengthened.
Most dreams occur during the stage of sleep when slumberers start making
rapid eye movements,
called REM sleep.
Vision is an extremely dynamic process — Even when we look at a fixed image, our
eyes are making
rapid movements,
called «saccades» to explore the image that is sent to our brain.
The brain generates two distinct types of sleep — slow - wave sleep (SWS), known as deep sleep, and
rapid eye movement (REM), also
called dreaming sleep.
The findings revealed that individuals following a Mediterranean diet had reduced sleep apnea symptoms such as a decreased amount of disturbances,
called apneas, while in the
rapid eye movement (REM) stage of sleep, which normally makes up about 25 % of total sleep throughout the night.